Boštjan Likar was born in 1971. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in 1995, 1998, and 2000, respectively, all in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a Ph.D. degree in 2000 from Utrecht University, Medical Faculty, The Netherlands. He became teaching assistant in 1996, senior lecturer in 1999, assistant professor in 2001, associate professor in 2006 and full professor in 2011, all at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. Boštjan Likar is author of three university textbooks and mentor of eight junior researchers. He is with the Laboratory of Imaging Technologies and his research interests concentrate on visual quality inspection, computer and machine vision systems, and on biomedical and hyperspectral imaging. He is author of over 80 SCI journal papers with over 700 clear citations, editor of two international conference proceedings, chair of two international conferences, associate editor of a special issue in a Medical Image Analysis journal, associate editor of Image Analysis and Stereology journal, reviewer of over ten SCI journals, program committee member of over 15 international conferences, principal researcher of eight research projects, designer of more than 20 new computer vision products, and co-founder of high-tech company Sensum, computer vision systems.
